44 year old Gail Nowacki Palmgren has been missing since April 30, 2011 from Signal Mountain, TN. Her husband, Matthew Palmgren, reported his wife missing to police on May 2 after he was urged by her family. He told police his wife left their children, ages 9 and 12, alone at their home at 40 Ridge-rock Drive on that date. His wife’s Jeep also is missing. Gail Nowacki Palmgren last spoke to her sister Diane Nichols around 6:30 AM April 30, telling her sister that she was leaving her Lake Jordan home heading to her home in Signal Mountain.

Missing: Gail Nowacki Palmgren

Family friend Arlene Durham said Palmgren is a devoted mother of two children, a 9-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.

“I think she’s so scared right now she doesn’t know what to do,” said Durham, who lives on Lake Jordan, Ala., and has been in Signal Mountain all week searching for Palmgren. “If she’s not hiding, then something happened to her. You don’t just up and leave. She’s not that type of person.”

Palmgren, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., moved to Signal Mountain in 2009 from Louisville, Ky., with her children and husband, Matt, director of pharmacy programs for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s government business and emerging markets business unit.